US Patent Issued to Igus on Aug. 25 for "Line guide apparatus for suspended applications, in particular drilling rigs, drilling apparatus or the like" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,716,469, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Igus GmbH (Cologne, Germany).

"Line guide apparatus for suspended applications, in particular drilling rigs, drilling apparatus or the like" was invented by Andreas Hermey (Hennef, Germany), Philip Howold (Frechen, Germany), Christoph Schmidt (Eitorf, Germany), Tim Schneebeck (Duisburg, Germany) and Thilo Konrad Schultes (Cologne, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Line guide apparatuses for guiding a plurality of lines for suspended applications such as for example in a drilling rig. The line guide apparatus has a flexible carrying strand of high tensile strength which extends over the len...